Library Resources

Library Books in the East Yancey Media Center on Energy, Sound, Light and Heat

Science Projects/Science Fair Resources

Help with Science Fair Projects: Just enter your information and the site will generate a project idea tailored to your assignment.
http://www.sciencebuddies.org/

This link designed by Macmillan includes supplementary resources for a California 6th grade textbook
http://activities.macmillanmh.com/science/ca/grade6/g6_ch3.html

Energy ( General)

Videos on Energy

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/matter/energy-and-matter.htm
Video about energy that explores, kinetic energy, chemical energy, mechanical energy, potential energy, electrical energy, and thermal energy

Websites

http://www.eia.gov/kids/index.cfm.
Website for kids developed by the Energy Information Administration

Games

Enegry Transfer
Click to play a game that teaches about energy conversions. Players assemble a series of energy devices that will transfer and transform energy from your source to your goal, modify the energy devises to maximize energy and efficiency and efficiently power, a city, a farm and a robot.
http://content3.jason.org/resource_content/content/digitallab/7000/misc_content/public/transformit.html

Competency Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations and examine models and devices to build an understanding of the characteristics of energy transfer and/or transformation.
Objectives 6.01 Determine how convection and radiation transfer energy. 6.02 Analyze heat flow through materials or across space from warm objects to cooler objects until both objects are at equilibrium. 6.03 Analyze sound as an example that vibrating materials generate waves that transfer energy. Frequency. Amplitude. Loudness. How sound travels through different material. Form and function of the human ear. 6.04 Evaluate data for qualitative and quantitative relationships associated with energy transfer and/or transformation. 6.05 Analyze the physical interactions of light and matter: Absorption. Scattering. Color perception. Form and function of the human eye. 6.06 Analyze response to heat to determine the suitability of materials for use in technological design: Conduction. Expansion. Contraction. 6.07 Analyze the Law of Conservation of Energy: Conclude that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form into another. Conclude that the amount of energy stays the same, although within the process some energy is always converted to heat. Some systems transform energy with less loss of heat than others.

Competency Goal 6: The learner will conduct investigations and examine models and devices to build an understanding of the characteristics of energy transfer and/or transformation.

Objectives
6.01 Determine how convection and radiation transfer energy.
6.02 Analyze heat flow through materials or across space from warm objects to cooler objects until both objects are at equilibrium.
6.03 Analyze sound as an example that vibrating materials generate waves that transfer energy.

Frequency.
Amplitude.
Loudness.
How sound travels through different material.
Form and function of the human ear.

6.04 Evaluate data for qualitative and quantitative relationships associated with energy transfer and/or transformation.
6.05 Analyze the physical interactions of light and matter:

Absorption.
Scattering.
Color perception.
Form and function of the human eye.

6.06 Analyze response to heat to determine the suitability of materials for use in technological design:

Conduction.
Expansion.
Contraction.

6.07 Analyze the Law of Conservation of Energy:

Conclude that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but only changed from one form into another.
Conclude that the amount of energy stays the same, although within the process some energy is always converted to heat.
Some systems transform energy with less loss of heat than others.

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